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Sucrose Palmitate
C28H52O12 580.71
 C44H82O13 819.11
 C60H112O14 1057.52
 Sucrose monopalmitate;
 Sucrose hexadecanoate [26446-38-8]

DEFINITION

Sucrose Palmitate is a mixture of sucrose monoesters, mainly sucrose monopalmitate, obtained by transesterification of palmitic acid methyl esters of vegetable origin with sucrose. The manufacture of the fatty acid methyl esters includes a distillation step. It contains variable quantities of mono- and diesters as set forth in the following table:

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